Digital BW, The Print

The 4780 scanner had an ultra-short life cycle too, replaced by the
4990...and the "film only" 3200 (not like the old flatbed 3200) was
only introduced in England, to rasberry noise responses. 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> > www.amazon.com has this statement in the Product Description text for
> > the R1800:
> > 
> > "From the Manufacturer
> > Note: The Epson R1800 is no longer being manufactured. You may want to
> > consider purchasing the R800 instead. The R800 offers a lower
price but
> > does not support wide-format printing."
> > 
> > Epson might have have huge stocks remaining, of course.
> > 
> 
> Now that is a short product life cycle.  I wonder what the problems are.
> 
> Outback photo noted some profile problems as well as issues with the
Glop.
> See http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi033/Epson_R1800.html
> 
> Perhaps Epson wants to iron out these problems on the smaller
printer before
> putting more eggs in that technological basket.  From what I've seen
of the
> MIS version of glop, I'd move slowly on that front.  I wonder also
if the
> smaller dot size is an issue with more clogging or other problems.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com